The Fall Crank Bait Bite
If history repeats itself the fall can be the best time of year for cranking your favorite spot on the lake. There has been no presentation for me produce more fish in numbers during the fall than a crank bait. It's safe to say that 100 fish a day is a pretty good possibility using crank baits near and around the grass ledges.
There has been a key to making this presentation successful, but it can be very frustrating to the average fishermen and annoying to those of you who get frustrated trying to fish all those hooks and pull them around grass. If you just guide the bait with the tip of the rod, snap it when it gets hung you will find it's not that annoying you just need a little patience and be able to visualize the bait making erratic movements off the grass. The snap or erratic pull creates bites and pulling crank baits can be the most rewarding presentation in the fall you have ever fished.
The next most important key is understanding the movement of the crank bait you are fishing. Some crank bait's have very wide wobble, other have a very tight wobble. I have found over years that the bass seem to be hesitant to strike a wide wobble bait in the fall of the year, they seem to want the tighter wobble especially as we start to see some cooler days on up into the fall. My suggestion is to have both available and set up a couple of poles so you can change from a tight wobble to a wide wobble bait easily until you find the bait they will strike. There is no need to fish in 20 ft of water most of the bass are moving to the 8 to 10 ft edges when they feed this time of year so just position yourself along the ledge in about 15ft of water and use a 45 degree angle to position your bait and you should be able to catch plenty of fall bass cranking the edges of the grass lines. Lastly work the bait slowly let it float up some when it bumps grass and snap it when it gets hung and you will catch plenty of fish.
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Captain Mike Gerry